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2. What you should know to reduce the risk of prostate cancer - AOL

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   Lowering the recommended age for baseline PSA testing in Black men could reduce prostate cancer deaths by about 30% without significantly increasing overdiagnosis rates, according to recent findings.

3. Prostate enlargement, how it affects men as they age, and its ...

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   PSA is made by cells of the prostate gland, so a baseline level in the blood is normal. If there is increased production, the blood level may be higher, and this is how PSA is used to screen for ...

4. 10 Warning Signs of Prostate Cancer, According to Doctors - AOL

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   PSA levels between 4 and 10 suggest you could have about a 25 percent chance of prostate cancer, and levels over 10 signal that your chance of having the cancer is more than 50 percent.

5. Prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder.Abnormal growth of the prostate tissue is usually detected through screening tests, typically blood tests that check for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.

6. Benign prostatic hyperplasia - Wikipedia

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   However, checking blood PSA levels for prostate cancer screening is controversial and not necessarily indicated in every evaluation for BPH. [2] Benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer are both capable of increasing blood PSA levels and PSA elevation is unable to differentiate these two conditions well. [ 2 ]

7. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   After surgery or radiation therapy, PSA may start to rise again, which is called biochemical recurrence if a certain threshold is met in PSA levels (typically 0.1 or 0.2 ng/ml for surgery). At 10 years of follow-up after surgery, there is an overall risk of biochemical recurrence of 30–50%, depending on the initial risk state, and salvage ...